How-To Add Artistic Text Effects with Adobe Photoshop

I’ve been having a lot of fun over the last few months showing off the basics of Adobe Photoshop CS5 but tonight I’m going to show you one of my favorite Photoshop tips – How To create groovy text effects!

This Photoshop groovyPost is great because it’s very easy and yet, the effects you can create can be really amazing! Let’s jump right into it with a groovyVideo followed by our classic step-by-step of the process.

You Will Need:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5

2. An image (can be almost any image)

3. Practice!

Video:

Step 1 – Choose an Image for your Text Effect

You’ll need an image to start with. I chose to work with the sky image we made in a previous tutorial and if you have made one yourself it will work great. For the best effect try to choose an image with bright colors. You can play around with different images until you find the right one.

Step 2 – Type Mask Tool

After importing the image into Photoshop with a simple drag-‘n’-drop or Ctrl+O select the Horizontal Type Mask Tool. If you can’t find it it’s hidden under the text tools menu. The type mask tool is one of the many tools Photoshop has and is one of the best, if not the best tool that will help you create an epic text effect.